"It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing."
"It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself."
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Source: Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag
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